Skip to main content

Table 4 Comparison of E. paramieti n. sp. with freshwater congeners that share a large-sized body, cirrotype-9 pattern I, two marginal cirri and a double silverline system

From: Taxonomy and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of two new Euplotes species from China: E. chongmingensis n. sp. and E. paramieti n. sp. (Protista, Ciliophora)

Characteristics

E. paramieti

E. amieti

E. eurystomus

E. aediculatus

E. woodruffi

E. octocarinatus

Cell size in vivo (μm)

180–220 × 110–155

130–240 × 70–160

88–180 × 40–135

105–170 × 60–120

83–200 × 58–130

60–126 × 31‒76

No. of AM

63–93

52–70

44–65

40–60

51–85

30–42

No. of DK

12–13 (12)

12–15

8–12

8–9

9–11

8

No. of DK_mid

24–37

18–32

15–25

18–26

17–35

12–19

Macronucleus

3-shaped

3-shaped

3-shaped

C- to 3-shaped

T- or Y-shaped

C-shaped

Data source

Present paper

[5, 34,35,36,37]

[6, 38,39,40,41]

[7, 30, 33, 42,43,44]

[5, 12, 30, 38, 42, 45,46,47]

[7, 48]

  1. AM adoral membranelles, DK dorsolateral kineties, DK_mid dikinetids in mid-dorsal kinety